Nautilus with Shen
How to Synergize Nautilus and Shen
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Nautilus Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nautilus and Shen
Tips for Playing as Nautilus with Shen
While ganking, consider aiming Dredge Line at nearby terrain and following it up with Riptide for a higher hit rate.
Riptide has a delayed blast timing on activation - you can use this while running away or when enemies are incoming to serve as a deterrent.
Advice to Understand How Shen Will Play
Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
Nautilus Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Nautilus in LoL
The Nautilus Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nautilus sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Shen helps Nautilus perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nautilus tries to synergize with Shen, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This change may signal that Shen provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played with Shen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Shen.
Moreover, when Nautilus plays with Shen on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Shen does a decent job of covering Nautilus in teamfights.
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Is Nautilus better when played alongside Shen?
There is no ideal companion for Nautilus that will no matter what be his best ally. However, overall, Shen is a relatively poor teammate for Nautilus. By locking into the same side as Nautilus, he decreases their win rate by -2.6% to 46.2%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Nautilus and Shen that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Nautilus. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Shen comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working alongside, Nautilus players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by bringing Nautilus and Shen together, you may not be providing your side much attack damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Shen ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus to work well with Shen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Nautilus and Shen synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Nautilus combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Shen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nautilus had an average winrate of 46.2% when playing alongside Shen with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.2% win rate overall.
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